"Down-and-out Nevada stars alongside two of the screen's best young character actors in THE MOTEL LIFE, a wintry story of life on the margins."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "Hirsch opens his heart to the role. And Dorff, matching the depth of feeling he showed in Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE, excels at digging deep into Jerry Lee's pain."Rolling Stone "[I]t's admirable and even memorable, in its moody fashion, thanks to Roman Vasyanov's richly textured cinematography -- he's a shooter to keep our eyes on -- and three affecting performances."Wall Street Journal 4 stars out of 5 -- "Powerful, moving and melancholy. A low-key treat."Empire30.60989

"Down-and-out Nevada stars alongside two of the screen's best young character actors in THE MOTEL LIFE, a wintry story of life on the margins."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "Hirsch opens his heart to the role. And Dorff, matching the depth of feeling he showed in Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE, excels at digging deep into Jerry Lee's pain."Rolling Stone "[I]t's admirable and even memorable, in its moody fashion, thanks to Roman Vasyanov's richly textured cinematography -- he's a shooter to keep our eyes on -- and three affecting performances."Wall Street Journal 4 stars out of 5 -- "Powerful, moving and melancholy. A low-key treat."Empire30.60989

"[W]orth seeing for its offbeat character study....[A] sweetly eccentric and low-key buddy picture/bromance..."USA Today "Rudd and Hirsch make surprisingly good polar opposites. Their major fight is a great blend of screwball comedy and total truth."Los Angeles Times "PRINCE AVALANCHE is frequently funny in a subdued sort of way, but its primarily contemplative and eventually intimate."Chicago Sun-Times "It is refreshing -- even thrilling, in a way -- to see Mr. Rudd play the uptight guy, and the expectation of goofiness the audience is likely to greet him with makes Alvins gravitas funny as well as oddly convincing."New York Times "By going back to nature -- and to his indie roots -- the director of GEORGE WASHINGTON has reconnected with his poetic side. The Malick comparisons seem appropriate again."A.V. Club30.51497

"[W]orth seeing for its offbeat character study....[A] sweetly eccentric and low-key buddy picture/bromance..."USA Today "Rudd and Hirsch make surprisingly good polar opposites. Their major fight is a great blend of screwball comedy and total truth."Los Angeles Times "PRINCE AVALANCHE is frequently funny in a subdued sort of way, but its primarily contemplative and eventually intimate."Chicago Sun-Times "It is refreshing -- even thrilling, in a way -- to see Mr. Rudd play the uptight guy, and the expectation of goofiness the audience is likely to greet him with makes Alvins gravitas funny as well as oddly convincing."New York Times "By going back to nature -- and to his indie roots -- the director of GEORGE WASHINGTON has reconnected with his poetic side. The Malick comparisons seem appropriate again."A.V. Club30.51497

"[T]he film is triumphantly visual....[SPEED RACER] bubbles with invention, staying true to its ambition of being a living cartoon."Empire "The stylised kitsch images have pop-art colours to make THE WIZARD OF OZ look drab, the pictures overlaid in sliding or zooming collages."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 4 -- "The bright, candy-colored universe the Wachowskis fashion out of digital and green screen wizardry is often psychedelic in the extreme."Premiere30.27767

"Nick Cassavetes gets to the heart of the story without running afoul of the truth police....The superb actors flesh out the social commentary." Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A] tightly controlled, highly charged piece of storytelling, based on real-life events."Film Comment 3 stars out of 5 -- "[M]uch like KIDS, these hedonistic junior gangsters are a middle class parent's nightmare....ALPHA DOG is quite compelling..."Ultimate DVD30.23021

"[A] tightly controlled, highly charged piece of storytelling, based on real-life events."Film Comment "Nick Cassavetes gets to the heart of the story without running afoul of the truth police....The superb actors flesh out the social commentary."Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 5 -- "[M]uch like KIDS, these hedonistic junior gangsters are a middle class parent's nightmare....ALPHA DOG is quite compelling..."Ultimate DVD30.23021

"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..."Los Angeles Times "It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..."Movieline "Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....Hes managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lee shows the experience from the outskirts...we see Woodstock as most attendees saw it: down among the mud and chaos...'Uncut30.04036

"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..."Los Angeles Times "It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..."Movieline "Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....Hes managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lee shows the experience from the outskirts...we see Woodstock as most attendees saw it: down among the mud and chaos...'Uncut30.04036

4 stars out of 5 -- "[Friedkin is] uncompromising in his vision, wringing every ounce of grime and salaciousness he can out of KILLER JOE's plot and characters to create the dirtiest black comedy you'll see for a long time."Total Film "KILLER JOE evokes the hardboiled regional poetry of Jim Thompson and William Faulkner, flirts with outright exploitation, [and] provides game actors with roles to relish..."Film Comment "Thomas Haden Church is solid....The film is a surprisingly effective showcase for Matthew McConaughey."Sight and Sound "[McConaughey] exercises his marvelous voice as a Texas detective and contract killer in KILLER JOE."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 4 -- "It is expertly directed, flawlessly cast and written with merciless black humor..."Chicago Sun-Times "What could have been a predictable piece of Jim Thompson-style pulp business becomes something much more subversive in Friedkin's hands."Uncut "[KILLER JOE] bristles with sleazy wit....A wellspring of comedy and plot twists, recalling RAISING ARIZONA's colorful vernacular while turning a simple contract job into a complicated web of family betrayals." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "[With] a killer performance by Matthew McConaughey....Never has noir been more diabolically naughty..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "Friedkin catches the dark humor of the piece....McConaughey mesmerizes."Rolling Stone26.52262

"Thomas Haden Church is solid....The film is a surprisingly effective showcase for Matthew McConaughey."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Friedkin is] uncompromising in his vision, wringing every ounce of grime and salaciousness he can out of KILLER JOE's plot and characters to create the dirtiest black comedy you'll see for a long time."Total Film "KILLER JOE evokes the hardboiled regional poetry of Jim Thompson and William Faulkner, flirts with outright exploitation, [and] provides game actors with roles to relish..."Film Comment "[McConaughey] exercises his marvelous voice as a Texas detective and contract killer in KILLER JOE."Wall Street Journal "[With] a killer performance by Matthew McConaughey....Never has noir been more diabolically naughty..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "It is expertly directed, flawlessly cast and written with merciless black humor..."Chicago Sun-Times "What could have been a predictable piece of Jim Thompson-style pulp business becomes something much more subversive in Friedkin's hands."Uncut "[KILLER JOE] bristles with sleazy wit....A wellspring of comedy and plot twists, recalling RAISING ARIZONA's colorful vernacular while turning a simple contract job into a complicated web of family betrayals." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "Friedkin catches the dark humor of the piece....McConaughey mesmerizes."Rolling Stone26.52262

"Thomas Haden Church is solid....The film is a surprisingly effective showcase for Matthew McConaughey."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Friedkin is] uncompromising in his vision, wringing every ounce of grime and salaciousness he can out of KILLER JOE's plot and characters to create the dirtiest black comedy you'll see for a long time."Total Film "KILLER JOE evokes the hardboiled regional poetry of Jim Thompson and William Faulkner, flirts with outright exploitation, [and] provides game actors with roles to relish..."Film Comment "[McConaughey] exercises his marvelous voice as a Texas detective and contract killer in KILLER JOE."Wall Street Journal "[With] a killer performance by Matthew McConaughey....Never has noir been more diabolically naughty..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "It is expertly directed, flawlessly cast and written with merciless black humor..."Chicago Sun-Times "What could have been a predictable piece of Jim Thompson-style pulp business becomes something much more subversive in Friedkin's hands."Uncut "[KILLER JOE] bristles with sleazy wit....A wellspring of comedy and plot twists, recalling RAISING ARIZONA's colorful vernacular while turning a simple contract job into a complicated web of family betrayals." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "Friedkin catches the dark humor of the piece....McConaughey mesmerizes."Rolling Stone26.52262

"[T]he filmmakers have crucially infused the story with qualities in very short supply today -- gentleness and a humane embrace of all its characters..."Variety 4 stars out of 4 -- "It's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did."Rolling Stone 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "MILK has one of the finest ensemble casts this year and a magnificent, career-topping performance by Sean Penn, who disappears into the title role."USA Today "Penn, as we've come to expect, is extremely persuasive as someone with a different, more offbeat kind of charisma than many of his previous screen roles....Franco is a nice match for him....It's a powerful story."Los Angeles Times "Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. MILK is a marvel....A fascinating, multi-layered history lesson."New York Times "Gus Van Sant's incisive and stirring dramatization of Harvey Milk's heroic life and violent death....MILK is a fascinating film..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "MILK tells Harvey Milk's story as one of a transformed life, a victory for individual freedom over state persecution, and a political and social cause."Chicago Sun-Times Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's 'Movies Of The Year' -- "[A] true political film. It finds its bristling purpose in humanity, not ideology."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's apparent Van Sant was making any and all efforts to bring Milk's story as close to it origin points as possible. The authenticity this Oregon native provides is palpable and, at times, breathtaking."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Penn] finds sufficient space amid the historical milestones to hint at the intensely private pain that underpins Milk's mission."Empire Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "The movie becomes a stirring primer on the participatory political process, and an unspoken exhortation to get involved."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "Gus Van Sant's earnest, lucid biopic is more than a portrait of one man. It's also a snapshot of his times..."Total Film "[T]he first great film to look at civil rights from the perspective of the gay movement....It transcends any single genre as a very human document that touches first and foremost on the need to give people hope."Hollywood Reporter26.28532

"[T]he filmmakers have crucially infused the story with qualities in very short supply today -- gentleness and a humane embrace of all its characters..."Variety 4 stars out of 4 -- "It's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did."Rolling Stone 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "MILK has one of the finest ensemble casts this year and a magnificent, career-topping performance by Sean Penn, who disappears into the title role."USA Today "Penn, as we've come to expect, is extremely persuasive as someone with a different, more offbeat kind of charisma than many of his previous screen roles....Franco is a nice match for him....It's a powerful story."Los Angeles Times "Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. MILK is a marvel....A fascinating, multi-layered history lesson."New York Times "Gus Van Sant's incisive and stirring dramatization of Harvey Milk's heroic life and violent death....MILK is a fascinating film..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "MILK tells Harvey Milk's story as one of a transformed life, a victory for individual freedom over state persecution, and a political and social cause."Chicago Sun-Times Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's 'Movies Of The Year' -- "[A] true political film. It finds its bristling purpose in humanity, not ideology."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's apparent Van Sant was making any and all efforts to bring Milk's story as close to it origin points as possible. The authenticity this Oregon native provides is palpable and, at times, breathtaking."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Penn] finds sufficient space amid the historical milestones to hint at the intensely private pain that underpins Milk's mission."Empire Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "The movie becomes a stirring primer on the participatory political process, and an unspoken exhortation to get involved."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "Gus Van Sant's earnest, lucid biopic is more than a portrait of one man. It's also a snapshot of his times..."Total Film "[T]he first great film to look at civil rights from the perspective of the gay movement....It transcends any single genre as a very human document that touches first and foremost on the need to give people hope."Hollywood Reporter26.28532

"[T]hough the film's structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but. It is infused with an expansive, almost giddy sense of possibility, and it communicates a pure, unaffected delight in open spaces, fresh air and bright sunshine."New York Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]he film is a haunting and moving experience, highlighted by evocative original music by Eddie Vedder."USA Today "[W]ritten and directed with magnificent precision and imaginative grace....It's an intensely physical movie..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Penn, in tandem with the superb cinematographer Eric Gautier, captures the majesty and terror of the wilderness in ways that makes you catch your breath."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Penn has evidently soaked up his Terrence Malick. But with its thoughtful pace and loose structure, his depiction of the McCandless odyssey also recalls Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY."Empire Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "10 Best Movies Of 2007" -- "This is personal filmmaking at its soaring best. Penn honors his subject and the courage it takes to push boundaries."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n eco-road movie that refreshes and invigorates. Exquisitely shot, robustly acted and deeply felt, it's a potent ode to wanderlust and human pluck."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "As the wide-eyed hero, Hirsch is excellent....This is Penn's big auteur statement on our times....It has more soul in its sprawl than any other film this year."Uncut "With its swooping hunger for landscape and new experience, it plunges headlong into the giddy, passionate convictions of its hero..."Sight and Sound 5 stars out of 5 -- "Director and book adapter Sean Penn has the greatest eye for composition of any successful actor turned film-maker since Clint Eastwood..."Ultimate DVD "Sean Penn's fascinating screen version of the Jon Krakauer book of the same name....[Stewart] gives an agreeably vital performance that could still be predictive of things to come in her career."Wall Street Journal26.28532

"[T]hough the film's structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but. It is infused with an expansive, almost giddy sense of possibility, and it communicates a pure, unaffected delight in open spaces, fresh air and bright sunshine."New York Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]he film is a haunting and moving experience, highlighted by evocative original music by Eddie Vedder."USA Today "[W]ritten and directed with magnificent precision and imaginative grace....It's an intensely physical movie..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Penn, in tandem with the superb cinematographer Eric Gautier, captures the majesty and terror of the wilderness in ways that makes you catch your breath."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Penn has evidently soaked up his Terrence Malick. But with its thoughtful pace and loose structure, his depiction of the McCandless odyssey also recalls Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY."Empire Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "10 Best Movies Of 2007" -- "This is personal filmmaking at its soaring best. Penn honors his subject and the courage it takes to push boundaries."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n eco-road movie that refreshes and invigorates. Exquisitely shot, robustly acted and deeply felt, it's a potent ode to wanderlust and human pluck."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "As the wide-eyed hero, Hirsch is excellent....This is Penn's big auteur statement on our times....It has more soul in its sprawl than any other film this year."Uncut "With its swooping hunger for landscape and new experience, it plunges headlong into the giddy, passionate convictions of its hero..."Sight and Sound 5 stars out of 5 -- "Director and book adapter Sean Penn has the greatest eye for composition of any successful actor turned film-maker since Clint Eastwood..."Ultimate DVD "Sean Penn's fascinating screen version of the Jon Krakauer book of the same name....[Stewart] gives an agreeably vital performance that could still be predictive of things to come in her career."Wall Street Journal26.28532

4 stars out of 5 -- "Oliver Stone returns to his comfort zone in this blood-soaked, sex and drug-fueled ride....In fact, SAVAGES is one of Stone's best movies..."Box Office "This intense and unavoidably gory adaptation of Don Winslow's wild best-seller about the incursion of Mexican drug cartel mayhem into the United States has been made in a jagged, darkly trippy style that well expresses the story's tense uncertainties..."Hollywood Reporter "[T]his long, dense adventure takes surprising side trips into thoughtfulness, ruefulness, whimsy and romance. It's high-grade entertainment sustained by a buoyant spirit."Wall Street Journal 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "A return to form for Stone's dark side, SAVAGES generates ruthless energy..."Chicago Sun-Times "SAVAGES is grandiose underworld pulp staged with screw-tightening skill and a taste for nasty kicks..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[With] lush compositions and suave camera movements....The sumptuousness of the movie is among its chief delights..."New York Times "Lively continues her run as a young actress with an undeniable spark....She keys into Os vulnerability and her rich-girl guilelessness..."Movieline "[T]he aesthetic attributes of its cast, along with some scene-stealing performances from the south-of-the-border side of its drug feud, give the film enough appeal..." -- Grade: B-A.V. Club 3 stars out of 5 -- "Hayek, as the beyond-ruthless drug queenpin Elena, is the standout; a smirking death-goddess with a mile-long mean streak."Total Film "[A] movie with real pulpy pulse....SAVAGES is of a piece with the nothing-succeeds-like-excess rule of Stone's career, a recklessly alive movie with retina-burning, sunstroke cinematography..."Sight and Sound0.284765

4 stars out of 5 -- "Oliver Stone returns to his comfort zone in this blood-soaked, sex and drug-fueled ride....In fact, SAVAGES is one of Stone's best movies..."Box Office "This intense and unavoidably gory adaptation of Don Winslow's wild best-seller about the incursion of Mexican drug cartel mayhem into the United States has been made in a jagged, darkly trippy style that well expresses the story's tense uncertainties..."Hollywood Reporter "[T]his long, dense adventure takes surprising side trips into thoughtfulness, ruefulness, whimsy and romance. It's high-grade entertainment sustained by a buoyant spirit."Wall Street Journal 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "A return to form for Stone's dark side, SAVAGES generates ruthless energy..."Chicago Sun-Times "SAVAGES is grandiose underworld pulp staged with screw-tightening skill and a taste for nasty kicks..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[With] lush compositions and suave camera movements....The sumptuousness of the movie is among its chief delights..."New York Times "Lively continues her run as a young actress with an undeniable spark....She keys into Os vulnerability and her rich-girl guilelessness..."Movieline "[T]he aesthetic attributes of its cast, along with some scene-stealing performances from the south-of-the-border side of its drug feud, give the film enough appeal..." -- Grade: B-A.V. Club 3 stars out of 5 -- "Hayek, as the beyond-ruthless drug queenpin Elena, is the standout; a smirking death-goddess with a mile-long mean streak."Total Film "[A] movie with real pulpy pulse....SAVAGES is of a piece with the nothing-succeeds-like-excess rule of Stone's career, a recklessly alive movie with retina-burning, sunstroke cinematography..."Sight and Sound0.284765

"Like the best war films, LONE SURVIVOR laces action with moral questions that haunt and provoke."Rolling Stone "[With] impressive physical filmmaking....Director Peter Berg delivers his most serious-minded work to date with LONE SURVIVOR, a scorching, often unbearably brutal account of a June 2005 military mission that claimed the lives of 19 U.S. soldiers..."Variety "Peter Berg's screen version of Marcus Luttrell's book is remarkably good at dramatizing the notorious 2005 Navy SEAL operation that went horrifically bad."Wall Street Journal "Berg has a knack for capturing men at work; his depiction of special-ops maneuvering -- of silently casing the enemy base, of planning the attack -- is as compelling as the chaotic violence he orchestrates later." -- Grade: B-A.V. Club "Captured in uncompromising detail by director of photography Tobias Schliessler, this movie is not for the faint of heart."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- ""Brutal, unrelenting and ultimately moving....[A] true story of a botched Navy SEAL raid in Afghanistan..."USA Today "[A] combat movie with the spare, clean contours of an old Western, as attuned to ethical questions as it is to gunplay and hot pursuit."New York Times "LONE SURVIVOR burns with the fever of a passion project. Writer-director Peter Berg's gratitude to United States servicemen for all their sacrifice comes through viscerally, from first frame to last..."RogerEbert.com "Berg has made a powerful film and an important reminder of what really happens when we send men and women off to war."Entertainment Weekly "Berg delivers one of the most shocking, gruesome and devastating depictions of war ever put on film."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]f you need reminding that 'war is hell', Berg serves it with unstinting first-person ferocity."Total Film0.2373041

"Like the best war films, LONE SURVIVOR laces action with moral questions that haunt and provoke."Rolling Stone "[With] impressive physical filmmaking....Director Peter Berg delivers his most serious-minded work to date with LONE SURVIVOR, a scorching, often unbearably brutal account of a June 2005 military mission that claimed the lives of 19 U.S. soldiers..."Variety "Peter Berg's screen version of Marcus Luttrell's book is remarkably good at dramatizing the notorious 2005 Navy SEAL operation that went horrifically bad."Wall Street Journal "Berg has a knack for capturing men at work; his depiction of special-ops maneuvering -- of silently casing the enemy base, of planning the attack -- is as compelling as the chaotic violence he orchestrates later." -- Grade: B-A.V. Club "Captured in uncompromising detail by director of photography Tobias Schliessler, this movie is not for the faint of heart."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- ""Brutal, unrelenting and ultimately moving....[A] true story of a botched Navy SEAL raid in Afghanistan..."USA Today "[A] combat movie with the spare, clean contours of an old Western, as attuned to ethical questions as it is to gunplay and hot pursuit."New York Times "LONE SURVIVOR burns with the fever of a passion project. Writer-director Peter Berg's gratitude to United States servicemen for all their sacrifice comes through viscerally, from first frame to last..."RogerEbert.com "Berg has made a powerful film and an important reminder of what really happens when we send men and women off to war."Entertainment Weekly "Berg delivers one of the most shocking, gruesome and devastating depictions of war ever put on film."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]f you need reminding that 'war is hell', Berg serves it with unstinting first-person ferocity."Total Film0.2373041